New government presents opportunities for action

The community
campaigning group ActionStation us welcoming the new
government and hopeful about the opportunities it presents
for action on several pressing issues.

“Since
ActionStation started three years ago, hundreds of thousands
of everyday New Zealanders have taken action on a wide range
of environmental and social issues including fixing our
mental health system, launching an inquiry for the survivors
of abuse in state care, cleaning up our rivers, ending
homelessness, better protection for people renting their
homes, public broadcasting, reforming our drug laws, and
ensuring international trade deals like the TPPA don’t
come at the cost of the well-being of people and the
planet.” says ActionStation co-founder Marianne Elliott.

“The parties forming the new government have all
promised to make significant policy progress on those issues
and, as a community, we look forward to ensuring they follow
through.”

Over 92% members of the ActionStation
community who responded to a survey said they wanted New
Zealand First to side with Labour and the Greens.

“We’re pleased that New Zealand First have chosen
change over the status quo.”

“In our years of
campaigning for a more fair and flourishing New Zealand
we’ve managed to achieve several victories under the
previous government. Our hope is that this change will
accelerate under the new government.”

“Labour, New
Zealand First, and the Greens have all committed to holding
an inquiry into our mental health system and significant
increases to funding.”

“All three parties recognise
that we must urgently clean up our rivers with Labour and
the Greens committing to the Fresh Water Rescue Plan.”

“They’ve also all committed to several
recommendations from our People’s Review of Renting to
improve the lives of people who rent”

“MPs from
Labour, New Zealand First, and the Greens accepted our
32,000 strong petition calling on them to unfreeze RNZ’s
funding and all have committed to improving the state of our
public broadcasting and media”

“Survivors of abuse
in state care can finally expect an inquiry and state
apology.”

“There are plenty of areas of agreement,
where we expect to see progress under this government, but
there also plenty of issues where all the parties can
improve. We look forward to holding them to account for the
promises they have made and pushing all the parties in
government towards a fairer and more flourishing future for
all, through the crowd-sourced vision in our People’s
Agenda, created in the lead up to the
election”

ActionStation is here to enable the large community of Kiwis with shared progressive values to take powerful, coordinated action on urgent issues we care about.

ActionStation is a member-led campaigning group whose mission is to help more New Zealanders get involved in campaigns and actions to promote participatory democracy, and transparent and accountable politics in New Zealand.

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